Stripe Shuffle Pattern Release

Do you have a list of things you want to do 'someday'? Things that don't have a deadline and so keep getting put off while you take care of the things that have the extra urgency given by someone else's expectation that you'll do them? My 'someday' list is either impressive or scary, depending on how you look at it, but it is ever so slightly shorter today as I get to cross off adding this pattern to my shop.

This pattern release has been a looooooong time coming! Back in 2018 I made the quilt top and shared the free pattern for it as my 5th blogging anniversary celebration. Last year, during WIPS-B-GONE, I finally finished that quilt and now I have updated the pattern to include instructions for baby and queen sizes along with the throw size. After spending years on my 'someday' list, the Stripe Shuffle pattern is now available!

The Stripe Shuffle block is stash-friendly and super-quick to piece. If you're looking for a last-minute graduation or wedding gift idea, this would work perfectly. It would look great in so many different colours, too! I couldn't resist mocking it up in a few variations. Of course, I love how it looks in all blues.

Spring colours are so pretty, too.

And the fall colours version makes me want a drink of hot apple cider.

What colours would you use? Or what should I mockup next? It's so fun seeing how a pattern would look in different colours.

Zach was my quilt holder the day I went out to get pictures for the cover of the pattern and for this post. It was windier than I was expecting, so it wasn't as quick as he might have liked. Quilts don't like to hang flat and straight when the wind is blowing even a little! 

Thankfully Zach humoured me long enough to get what I needed. I so appreciate my guys who go along with my quilt holding requests!

The quilting on my Stripe Shuffle was started in 2018 on my Kenmore machine, then finished last year on my Janome 6700. I quilted a daisy chain in the middle white stripes and wishbones in the outer white stripes. When I finished that, I felt like it still needed something more, so I added a string of large pebbles down the center of each of the wide teal, black, and grey stripes. The narrow coloured stripes aren't quilted.

For the quilting thread, I used white, black, a couple of greys, and a couple of teals to try to match the fabrics as much as possible. The colours don't show up well in this picture of the back, but the texture sure does!

It has been a while since I did such dense custom quilting on something that wasn't a mini or baby quilt and at times I felt like the quilting was never going to be finished! At the same time, it was nice to take my time and work through quilting each individual design. I love that there are many ways to make a quilt, so we can do what we feel like in the moment. Dense custom quilting? Go for it! A quick, all-over meander with some flowers thrown in? Perfect choice! Hand quilting? It'll be gorgeous!

If what you feel like making in this moment is your own Stripe Shuffle quilt, you can pick up a copy of the pattern in my shop!